SOUTH PLAINFIELD -- Police found 26 weapons, including a machine gun, and thousands of rounds of ammunition in the home of a borough man who was arrested Wednesday after authorities say he walked into a construction company carrying an air rifle, authorities said.

Steven Toth, 37, of Pitt Street, was charged with making terroristic threats and weapons possession.

Google MapsPulaski Street, behind Pitt Street, in South Plainfield, the site of a construction company where police allege Steven Toth fired an assault rifle in the air 11 times.

Officers received reports that an intoxicated man had entered the construction company on Pulaski Street at about 2:13 p.m. with an AR-15 rifle on his shoulder, causing workers to take cover under desks, police said.

The man had an incoherent conversation with the company's co-owner, who escorted the man from the building, police Chief John Ferraro said.

Witnesses called police and the said the man had returned to the rear yard of his Pitt Street home and fired 11 shots into the air, Ferraro said.

Officers went to Toth's home and arrested him, then searched the house and found the assault rifle, along with two other assault rifles, a shotgun and several handguns, the chief said.

Toth is being held in the Middlesex County jail in North Brunswick on $50,000 bail.